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Predatory journal risk checker
Pubrica’s free predatory journal risk checker assesses a journal against twelve weighted checks drawn from Think. Check. Submit. and the membership criteria published by COPE, DOAJ and OASPA. Select the statements that apply to the journal to see a risk assessment and the criteria behind it before you submit.
The tool runs in your browser. No registration, email address or file upload is required, and the formula, reference or assessment criteria used are shown with the result.
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Check a Journal for Predatory Publishing Risk
Assesses a journal against twelve weighted checks drawn from Think. Check. Submit. and the COPE, DOAJ and OASPA criteria.
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Assesses a journal against twelve weighted checks drawn from Think. Check. Submit. and the COPE, DOAJ and OASPA criteria.
12 checks · weighted0 / 30
Weighted concern score
No flags raised
Verdict on what you ticked
Nothing here points to a predatory operation. That is not the same as the journal being a good home for your paper — check the scope, the recent issues and whether the papers it publishes are ones you would cite.
Method. The twelve checks are drawn from the questions Think. Check. Submit. asks authors, and from the membership criteria published by COPE, DOAJ and OASPA. The weights are ours: a claim that can be checked and found false — fake indexing, a fake impact factor, a fake society membership — counts more than a claim that is merely unprofessional. No checklist can be conclusive, and a new journal from a legitimate publisher will honestly fail the indexing question for its first few years.
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